The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-12-20

more that it may demonstrate what 1t can do Then
lift fails it will fall, if it is good it will stand If
you are in doubt about what you should do give us
the benefit of the doubt. Give the doubt to the
churches of the city that stand unbroken in the
cause. Give the doubt to the 10000 prayers that
ascend nightly for this cause from the women and
children in Atlanta, prayers uttered silently that
you cannot catch their whispered utterance but
sincerely that they speed their soft entreay through
the singing hosts of heaven into the heart of the
living God If You in doubt as to what your duty
is, turn for this once, to your oil mother whose
gray hairs shall plead with you as nothing else
should-remember how she has loved you all
ner life and how her old heart yearns for you now.
rake her old hand in yours, look into her eyes
iearessly as you did when you were barefoot boy,
ana say II have run my politics all my life, and to-
DAY am going TO give one vote for YOU How shall
cast it?' Watch the tears start from her shining
eyes, feel the lump rising in your throat and tell
me If that is not better than personal liberty" If
you are in doubt, ask your wife-ask her who years
ago put her little hand in yours, and adoring and
trusting left the old home nest and went out with
| you into the unknown word-remember how she
mas stood by you when all else forook-how she has
lived only in your life and carried your SORROWS as
her own, and ask her how you shall vote do not
believe that women should counsel men in politics.
put this question is deeper than politics.
your Wife need not tell You how you
vote on tariff, or on candidates or on
ahypoItical issue, but this is her election as
WEI as yours. On this jeopardy is staked the home
you buIlded together, the happiness you have had
together. and the welfare of the little children in
whose veins your blood and hers runs commingled
er stake and theirs On this election is greater than
yours Then ask her, if you have any doubt how
you shall vote on that day
Now word 10 the good women here You can
40 great work quietly and gently in your homes for
this cause and for the good your city You can do
this work in the home circle where no man can say
you nay.
Mothers, go to your son on election morning, call
MIN pack TO the time when he learned Gods name
AT Your knees, and wake when he would in the
night, he would find your soft eyes above him and
your loving arms about him, aud say: "My SON. find
! your way this morning in memory to those days
when nothing stood between us, and when these old
| hands sheltered and protected you"
Wives, go to your husbands that morning Not in
pique or criticism, but with love and tenderness
that shall break through his pride and Indifference
lay his hand lovingly the heads of the little ones
the pride of his life and yours-oh, you who went
| down into the very jaws of death that you might
| give them to himl-and say: "My husband, what
ever you do today do it for these little ones and for
meP' GApplause.l
l. Now, my friends, have done. What l have
spoken TO you tonight have spoken in sober ear
nestness ndtruth. If what L have said has i'm
| pressed you beg of you TO let the impression
deepen rather than pass away, for know and you
know that this issue goes deeper than words can CO.
| 1t involves hundreds of homes redeemed from want
and desoation it involves thousands of hearts now
rejoicing that late were breaking; it involves the
| happiness of women and children the most sacred
charges youchsafed to care, it involves the fate
| OF this tremendous experiment that Atlanta must
settle for the American people Against It there is
| nothing but the Whim of personal liberty Your
CITY has prospered under prohibition it has never
| prospered before. If you are merchant or a man
ufacturer, your books win tell yon this You know
that you have prospered this year in your business
| nal yNntf,t Of "a, =
| about you on these busting streets, and on these
busy stores on these shops and factories in which
the fires scarcely die, and in which the work
men are never Idle, and then vote in the light of
| reason and OF conscience, and However yon vote
may God bless you, and the city you love so well.
| Tremendous applausel
Then looking over the vast audience, stilled to
hear the voice of tie speaker Mr. Grady said with
| great earneslness and eloquence:
! 1.-THE best reforms of this earth come through
waste and storm and doubt an sus picion III sun
itself when 1t rises each day wastes the radiance
of the moon and bots the starlight from the skies
but only to unlock the earth from the clasp of night
ana plant the stars anew in the opening fowers.
| Behind that sun, as behind this movement we NAV
be sure there stands the Lord God Almig hty mas.
| ter and maker Of this universe from whose hand
the spheres are rolled to their orbits, and whose
voice has been the harmony of this world since the
| and long-continued applause.
Card From Mr.. Grady
| Mr. Grady on the morning after his speech print
| ed the following card
When everything else / have said or done is
forgotten, want the words have spoken for prohi-
| bitfon in Atlanta 10 be re m amberci am nrorder
of my share in the campaign that has ended In its
defeat than Of my share in all other canpaiRns
that have ended in victory espoused its cause
night and day to the very best of my ability. NV
only regret Is that my ability was not greater.
am firm in the convieton-an from this conviction
shall never be shafen-that Atlanta has prospered
| under her two years of prohibition as she never
Prospered before and thathe experiment of "proh
billion in large city, succeeded in Atlanta as no
| experiment under like distractions ever succeeded
| before. l write these words in behalf of cause
| that enlisted my heart and reason ana conscience
! as no other cause did, and from which they can
never be estranged. 1t s to the honor and strength
OF that cause that defeat but deepens the deyo
ton and loyalty Of those who have fought and suf
| fere1 with 1t.
But il is defeated.
be sold In Atanie. While the direct responsibility
of that decision rests with those who secured 1t by
their influence vote IL involves every citizen in
an obligation That he cannot in manliness escape
eYade. This obligation every citizen should meet
In such manner as promises the best results for At
lanta 70 Iurn a deal ear to reason 70 sulk, or to
| sit in stubbornness is unworthy of any man who
| stood for prohibition In this campaign.
The anti pfohibitiofl leaders stand pledged to
every possible mitigation of the admitted evils of the
| liquor traf Some Of them have declared for the
wholesale traffic along with no barTOoms-others for
high license falcons in restr ted territory aud un
| der strict regulaons--all Of them against the j.
Iaon harroom and The discriminate sale. There
can be no doubt of the sincerity Of these declara-
| tons. The names Of the men who make them is
the stamp of'tlreir intcgrity-Hon. John b. Good
/ win, DR.. X. D. Spaldins Captain Howell, my friend
and partner, who has my confidence and afec-
| ton, and OtheB-these men are known of all At
| lanta.
The ability Of these leaders TO make their pledges
good depends largely II not entirely, the coop
| GRAFTON OF the prohibitlonists. This corporation
| they should haye--lrankly cordially, hil-banded
| As far as | am concerned, they shall have &C. Con
slant association for weeks with the prohibltionsts
in which found them always rnselish devoted
| and patriotic-justdes me in the belief that they
viii rome up 10 the full measure Of their duty as
| they have always done; Of the schemes offered
| those that promise the least liquor and closest
| surveillance Of the candidates Offered, those
| that are pledged 10 highest license and strictest
regulation, wi il ia SAFE TO say receive the support
Of the prohibitOnsts. In everything that looks TO
| Atlantas good, or the happiness and prosperity OF
| her people. none shall precede them as none have
| ever preceded them.
Two years ago the prohibitionists went on record
in Atlanta, and made their record through constant
and organized obstruction. This morning the anti
| pr, bitiOnsts 60 on record II they establish q
| system Of laws under which our people can be per
manently united in honor aud conscience, they win
! deserve aud receive constant EuppJrtf they 10 l.
the prohbtOnist will not lack the courage TO again
appeal to the people. II Is earnestly hOJe they VIII
succeed for beyond thscsI eci0 issue there deep
and deepening reasons why the conservative and in
tclliqent men Of this city should be brought into
| cordial compact. Henry w. GRADY.
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